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Class Struggle in the New Testament
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2018
Summary
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels; the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New Testament’s use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference point for future discussion.
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0207-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0208-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
282
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
Chapter One. Class Struggle in the New Testament! No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter Two. Jesus, the Temple, and the Crowd: A Way Less Traveled No access Pages 15 - 52
Chapter Three. Romans Go Home?: The Military as a Site of Class Struggle in the Roman East and New Testament No access Pages 53 - 66
Chapter Four. Peasant Plucking in Mark: Conceptual and Material Issues No access Pages 67 - 88
Chapter Five. IVDAEA DEVICTA: The Gospels as Imperial “Captive Literature” No access Pages 89 - 114
Chapter Six. Fishing for Entrepreneurs in the Sea of Galilee?: Unmasking Neoliberal Ideology in Biblical Interpretation No access Pages 115 - 138
Chapter Seven. Hand of the Master: Of Slaveholders and the Slave-Relation No access Pages 139 - 152
Chapter Eight. Populist Features in the Gospel of Matthew No access Pages 153 - 168
Chapter Nine. Troubling the Retainer Class in Antiquity No access Pages 169 - 190
Chapter Ten. Rethinking Pauline Gift and Social Functions: Class Struggle in Early Christianity? No access Pages 191 - 208
Chapter Eleven. The Origin of Archangels: Ideological Mystification of Nobility No access Pages 209 - 240
Chapter Twelve. Christian Origins and the Specter of Class: Locating Class Struggle in the New Testament Today No access Pages 241 - 248
